About Me
Pamela Minor
I am the proud wife of a Service-Disabled Veteran (SDV). Mrs. Minor is a Certified Verification Counselor trained by the Center for Verification and Evaluation (CVE).
My academic background resulted in a Mass Communication degree, followed up with a Computer Science degree; my business career start with me working for major vendors in the IT sector (Digital Equipment Corporation, Network Solutions, Oracle Corporation, Sybase Inc. and one of the “Big Six” in accounting, Ernst & Young.
After achieving professional success, I started Infotek International, Inc. (Infotek). While owning and operating Infotek for over 25 years, we launched and won commercial contracts with my former employers. During the 1980s recession, which affected much of the developed world in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Infotek growth strategy included pursuing the Federal market. I got 8(a) certified and graduated; woman owned Small business (WOSB) certified, were accepted in the Department of Defense (DoD) Mentor Protégée Program (MPP) and got ISO certified. The Federal market is the largest purchaser spending over $500 billion annually of goods and services. Only one to two percent of all small businesses in the United States do business with the federal government.
About Veteran Owned Business
UNCLE SAM wants you again!!!
You served your country and now it's time the government to serve you! When the Veterans Benefits act of 2003 was passed by congress, a section of the act was established to where federal contracting officers may restrict competition to Veteran Owned Businesses and award sole source to Veteran Owned Businesses.
The United States Federal Government is dependent on contractors, both large and small, to provide high quality goods and services of all kinds. Small businesses are vital to this in all industries, from toilet paper to concrete to web development. By law, the federal government has to award a percentage of all contracts to Veteran Owned businesses. Once you are Veteran Owned certified, your competition is virtually eliminated. Get your Veteran Owned Certification so you can receive those guaranteed contracts.
1. Information Technology - Total Prime Award Amount: $1.4T
2. Operations & Maintenance - Total Prime Award Amount: $1.6T
3. Professional Services - Total Prime Award Amount: $1.1T
4. Environment & Conservation Services - Total Prime Award Amount: $907.2B
5. Research & Development - Total Prime Award Amount: $916.9B
6. Defense & Aerospace Engineering - Total Prime Award Amount: $907.2B
7. Scientific & Technical - Total Prime Award Amount: $908.6B
By law, the federal government has to award a percentage of all contracts to Veteran Owned Businesses (VOB).
VBR is an company that specializes in helping businesses get Veterans registered to do business with the federal government. Often, the difference between landing and losing a contract or grant is a small mistake that prevents proper filing.
As a business owner:
- You Know what you know (you are a dedicated and knowledgeable and you have honed your skills spending years in the U.S. military in your chosen industry ) .
- You know what you don't Know (all the operational risk that will impact your business financial or legally if you are not a accountant or attorney)
- You don't know what you don't know ("in fact, you will never know what you don't know. There will always be gaps in your knowledge, places where you re absolutely clueless as to your ignorance.", this is where VBR comes in.) Be ready to learn what you don't know you don't know.
Trust the VBS experts so you can be sure your company is properly registered and fully able to apply for and win federal contracts and Grants. We’ll begin by getting you registered and initiating the application process so you can start bidding on federal contracts. We’ll help you gather some information to get the ball rolling, then contact you to discuss the registration process more fully. Don’t worry - we’ll be here to walk you through it every step of the way.
Classes
Government Contracting
Courses designed to help small businesses understand how the government buys goods and services.
- What is Government contracting?
- Are you ready for government contracting, are you procurement ready?
- How and where do you find contract opportunities.
- You won a government contract, now what? Are you performance ready?
Strategy
VBR will help you develop strategies for small business contractors.
- Develop a strategic and manageable pipeline
- Develop a targeted approach with a laser focus.
- How and where to find team mates or alliance partners you are business and culturally compatible with.
- Identify opportunity advocates and "devil's" advocates
- Have a "Bid no Bid" process or system
- Develop "capture manager lane" and "proposal manager lane".
- Know your real discriminator.
Testimonials
Blog
Domino Effect
- The path to getting everything you want is to get one thing at a time,
- To live big, you go small and trust the Domino Effect.
- Then when you knock down one thing, it automatically get you to knock down the next.
Focusing Question
"What's the ONE Thing I can do / such that by doing it / everything else will be easier or unnecessary?"
Time Blocking
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To experience extraordinary results, be a maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon. Your goal is "ONE and done." But if you don't time block each day to your ONE Thing, your ONE Thing won't become a done thing.
Building yoga practice into your daily life will reap benefits in terms of increased strength, stability, energy, and relaxation. You don’t need much equipment to begin with, just a yoga mat and clothes that allow you to move freely. This brief routine should take around 15 minutes. Each asana should be held for three breaths unless otherwise instructed and should flow naturally into the next pose.
Warming up
Sit cross-legged and breathe evenly through your nose for two minutes. Then, for 15 breaths, bend your body from side to side each time you exhale.
Your workout
- From the seated warm up pose, breathe out and move into the cat pose: On your hands and knees, lower your head, lift your belly, and round your back. Alternate the cat pose with the cow pose: Arch your back, raise your head, and press your shoulders out and down. These poses warm and stretch the abs, hips, spine, and shoulders.
- From the cat pose and on an exhaled breath, press your buttocks upwards to create an inverted V shape. This is the downward dog pose that strengthens the arm and leg muscles. Repeat five times.
- The extended side angle pose: Standing with your right leg lunged forward, lower your left heel to the ground with your toes at a 45-degree angle, and reach high with your left arm to create a straight line from hand to ankle. This stretches and strengthens the hips, thighs, shoulders, and back.
- Reverse these instructions (i.e. lunge with left leg forward and so on) to stretch the other side of the body.
- Finish your practice with the locust pose: Lie face down with your arms by your sides and raise your shoulders, head, and arms while taking two full breaths. Lower your head and arms, raise your feet and legs, hold for two breaths, and then lower. Finally, lie flat on your back and relax for two or three minutes.
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